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The First Vision
BYU historian of the vision
Harper has written the fullest history of how the vision was remembered, and argues that its status as the all-or-nothing test of Mormon truth claims is itself a historical development — the product of canonization in 1880 and of choices made since, not of the 1820s or 1830s.
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The bicentennial, and BYU Studies takes stock
Around the two-hundredth anniversary, BYU Studies Quarterly published both Harper's account of how the vision became 'all or nothing' and Ann Taves's essay conceding how much better attested the 1824 revival is than the 1820 one. Both appeared in the Church university's own journal.
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Steven C. Harper
That the vision's all-or-nothing status is a historical development after the 1880 canonization, and narrates Walters's and Jessee's parallel discoveries in the 1960s.
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